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This essay compares two literary heroines, Jane Eyre and Antoinette Cosway, and their relationship to male protaganist Edward Rochester in the novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. The paper compares and constrasts the two women, as well as the authors who created them. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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and madness. Since the publication of Charlotte Brontes novel Jane Eyre in 1847, this particular scene in which the penniless heroine, Jane, confronts Bertha Rochester, the insane wife of her
husband-to-be Edward Rochester, has been long recognized as the shocking "turning point" of the novel. Upon learning that her intended is married - and to whom - Jane understandably turns
on her heel and leaves Thorndyke House, only to return upon the death of Bertha, and the blindness of her beloved. While
much has been noted, recorded and rehashed about Janes reaction to Rochesters little secret in the attic, much had not been known about Bertha and how she had come to
be a Rochester - or even how she ended up in that attic. Nothing was known, that is, until author Jean Rhys, more than 100 years later, penned Wide Sargasso
Sea, the story of how the lovely and passionate Antoinette Cosway (nee Mason) moved from the wild freedom of her Creole origins in the West Indies into the "Bertha" who
was locked away, like some dirty little secret, in the attic of the very proper, very English Rochester family. In comparing
the two female characters who interacted in literature with Edward Rochester, one notices differences - and similarities - in their interactions and relationships with this man, who is on one
hand, brutal and coarse, and on the other hand, simply a representation of the sign of his times. The purpose of this paper is to describe these similarities and differences,
and to indicate how each of these impacted their relationships with Rochester. In describing both Jane Eyre and Antoinette Cosway, its interesting
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